Speakers
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Program Director, FISD/Atradia David Anderson is a well know market data consultant on both sides of the Atlantic. He has worked in the market data industry since 1984 - including roles with Telerate, Bishopsgate Systems and he spent nearly 13 years with Reuters culminating in various global marketing roles; predominantly working on market data systems (e.g. Triarch and RMDS). Since 2002 David has been operating Atradia (www.atradia.com), a management consultancy practice focused on the market data industry. He has been quoted commenting on the market data industry in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Business Week and many others. David speaks on the subject of market data at conferences and has moderated a wide variety of industry panel sessions. He edited the respected annual ‘IMD Reference’ book between 2003 and 2009 and most recently he has been very closely involved with the new SIIA/FISD initiative to create a professional certification program for market and reference data practitioners. David also acts as a Program Director for a variety of other FISD activities. |
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Chief Executive Officer, Egypt for Information Dissemination (EGID) Maher Asham Joined EGID in 2003 as the CEO and a board member. EGID is a totally owned subsidiary of CASE working in the fields of financial information and system development for financial markets. Maher is also the IT Supervisor of CASE since 2004. During that period EGID managed to offer a wide range of information services, consultancy and systems in Egypt and the Middle East as well. Before EGID, Maher worked for Reuters since 1993 in several positions, in Cairo as well as in Geneva, ending as the Marketing and Business Development Manager for East Med. and North Africa. During that period he built the exchange data on Reuters platforms for MENA markets as well as developed several products and services. Maher is also a part time faculty in both the Management and Economics Departments at The American University in Cairo. He has been the IT manager of Santa Fe Drilling Co, and developed several educational simulation models about financial markets. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an MBA in International Business, both from the American University in Cairo. |
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Market Data Sourcing, UBS Andrea Barblan is a Director in the Market Data Sourcing team of UBS, covering all market data related exchange agreements for the group worldwide and some vendor and rating agencies relationships. He has joined UBS in January 2008 and holds a degree in Applied Economics. |
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Head of Strategic Business Development , SIX Telekurs Ivo Bieri is Head of Strategic Business Development and member of the management committee at SIX Telekurs Ltd, a division of SIX Group. He is responsible for the business lead in major regulatory and infrastructure projects, development of the data strategy and product line extensions, as well as M&A activities. Before taking up this role in 2011, he worked in a variety of management positions within the data and product management departments at SIX Telekurs, most recently heading Product Management and Marketing. |
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Director, Member Relations, FISD Guest | |
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Managing Director, FISD Tom Davin is Managing Director, Financial Information Services Division (FISD) for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). FISD is the global, neutral forum for the financial information industry with a diverse membership that includes major market data vendors, exchanges, technology providers, and the financial institutions that utilize financial data products. Tom works closely with FISD members to identify major issues and seek opportunities to bring the financial information industry together to discuss and resolve those issues. FISD conducts regular membership events in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and hosts the biennial World Financial Information Conference – the premiere global industry conference for financial information professionals. |
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Co Chair FISD Constituent Group, Vendor Manager, Robeco Tristan Dehaan has worked for the dutch asset manager company Robeco since 2001. Initially responsible for custodian & TA outsourced service providers and then head of the dedicated Robeco market data group, beginning 2011 an organisation restructure led to the creation of a central vendor management department. The VM group manages IT, Market Data and Retail content licensing and here his responsibilities continue with focus on strategic planning, contract management including procurement and internal business consultant/external vendor relationship management. |
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Chief of Staff, European Cash and Listing, NYSE Euronext Simon Gallagher is Chief of Staff in NYSE Euronext’s European Cash and Listing business unit. He joined the group in 2001 and has occupied a wide range of positions in client management, IT projects, finance and strategy. In his current role he oversees regulatory, strategic and planning activity for the business unit, with a particular focus on MiFID and most recently market data. He is a CFA charterholder and holds an MBA. |
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Associate Director - EMEA, Enterprise Solutions, S&P Capital IQ Rickie Glasgow is an Associate Director in the S&P Capital IQ Product Management team based in London. He has been with S&P Capital IQ (formerly known as Standard & Poor’s) for over 5 year’s and initially focused on S&P RatingsXpress service before moving to their Enterprise Data Solutions division. Rickie manages a portfolio of products in EMEA which provide reference, pricing and ratings feeds aimed at the Enterprise Data Management space. He also has in-depth knowledge of front, mid and back office operation and data requirements both from a client and vendor perspective. |
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Deputy Secretary General, Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchange (FEAS) Susan has worked over the past seven years in the role of Deputy Secretary General within the FEAS region to help develop and promote the member stock exchanges through her work in finance, statistics, report preparation and publication, conferences, advertising and strategic partnerships. FEAS currently has 34 member exchanges covering 30 countries in the Middle East, Asia and South East Europe. |
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Director, Market Strategy, Asset Control Systems, Inc. Martijn Groot is Director of Market Strategy at Asset Control and previously held functions in product marketing and product management. Before Asset Control, Mr Groot worked at ABN AMRO Amsterdam where he held a variety of positions within technology and risk management. Mr Groot holds an MBA from Insead, a MSc in mathematics from VU University, Amsterdam and is a certified Financial Risk Manager. Mr. Groot is frequently quoted in publications including Risk International, WorldFinance, Banking & Finance, IBS, Investor Services Journal, Waters Magazine, STP Magazine and Inside Reference Data and is also the author of the recent book "Managing Financial Information in the Trade Lifecycle" published by Elsevier. | |
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Senior Vice President, NASDAQ OMX Brian Hyndman is Senior Vice President, of Global Data Products for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., the world’s largest exchange company. He is responsible for the creation and dissemination of valuable information from the quoting and trading in NASDAQ OMX’s trading systems worldwide. Hyndman oversees various internal teams, including Sales, Product Management, Content Administration & Policy, and New Business Development. |
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Head of Global Market Data Strategy , BNP Paribas André’s role, within BNP Paribas, is to analyse the market data landscape and all factors such as regulations, mergers, IT innovations … that can impact it. His topics of interest are both the offer side (vendors, exchanges, brokers, new ventures) and the demand side (BNP Paribas business lines). Since 2005, he focused on the MiFID directive and its impacts on Market Data and Market structure for the different BNP Paribas business lines. He is very invested in the collaborative approach in different user groups (Cossiom, IPUG, FISD…). Previously Head of BNP Paribas Market Data projects from 2002 to 2006, he has been working in the Capital Market area for 20+ years. He was hired by Paribas in 1990 as a project manager to lead the development of the trading system for Fixed Income and Derivatives. He was then appointed head of IT for trading rooms in Paris where he oversaw support, production, engineering and administration of Market Data and trading systems worldwide. He was part of the Euro and Y2K projects within BNP Paribas. Previously, he worked for two years at Alcatel as a researcher in quantum optics and three years at the financial direction of Ciments Francais, a French cement company, in charge of developing models and simulations for the acquisition department. He holds two MS in Physics and Electrical Engineering. |
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Secretary General, World Federation of Exchanges Thomas Krantz serves as Secretary General of the World Federation of Exchanges, the Paris-based trade association for the regulated exchange industry. He has been with the Federation since 1997. |
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Business Manager, Risk & Compliance Services, Interactive Data Darren Marsh is European business manager, Risk Management and Compliance Services, Interactive Data. He is responsible for identifying and developing services that are designed to meet Interactive Data's clients’ needs for regulatory compliance and risk management. He also led the implementation of a Business Entity Service, which can help clients to obtain a more complete picture of the corporate hierarchy of an entity in order to understand its capital structure and global exposure, as well as perform pre- and post-trade technical analysis. Darren joined Interactive Data over ten years ago as a product marketing manager for the company’s reference data services. Prior to joining the company, he has worked as a product manager for a range of data vendors and in back office operations on the client side. |
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Senior Clients and Regulators Relationship Manager , Bloomberg L.P. Laurent Martinet has been with Bloomberg LP since 2000. He currently manages the European Client and Regulator Relationships team for DataSolution. Previously Laurent Martinet started his career at Bloomberg as DataSpecialist in Funds from 2000 to 2003. Then He became Sales Account Managers with responsibilities over DataLicense and Managed Bpipe for UK Buyside and Luxembourg from 2004 to 2009, moved as UK Buyside Manager in 2009 and in 2010 managed France, Luxembourg and Spain DataSolution Sales team. |
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Global Reference Data Programme, Nomura Nigel Matthews is Programme Manager and Global Head of Strategy for the Global Reference Data (GRD) Programme at Nomura. The GRD Programme aims to provide timely and consistent data that is critical to support business operations such as client engagement, decision support, risk control and capital utilisation. Nigel is responsible for ensuring GRD achieves its objective of aligning resources, platforms and processes to facilitate greater efficiency across jurisdictions, geographic regions and demographic consumer groups. |
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Vice-Chair, FISD Exec Committee / Senior Manager, TSX Datalinx Services, TMX Group Michael McCrea is a Senior Manager within TMX Datalinx, a division of TMX Group. Since 2001, Michael has been responsible for the TMX Group Market Data Customer Support and Administration businesses, which includes supporting the global market data distribution channels for TSX, TSX Venture, Montreal Exchange, and various third party content suppliers. His group is responsible for all aspects of market data administration including contracting, market data usage policies, and customer reporting, invoicing, and compliance. Michael has been in the financial industry since 1987, working in various positions within the market data consumer and vendor firms, is currently on the Executive Committee of the FISD (the Financial Industry Services Division of the SIIA), and serves as Co-Chair of the Exchange Constituency Group. | |
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Market Data Product Manager, Ballintrae Market Data Services Ltd Rob started his career at the London Stock Exchange in 2004 as a Market Data Analyst before moving into Audit in 2006. In 2008 Rob moved from the LSE to Dresdner Kleinwort to see market data from the other side of the fence as a Market Data Compliance Analyst until October 2009 when he joined Citigroup in a similar role. Rob has since joined Ballintrae as product manager and has overseen the growth of Ballintrae's Market Data products and consultancy offerings. |
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Program Director, FISD Nick joined FISD in May 2007 and works with members focused on anti-piracy of market data, data provider contract licenses and policies as well as communication among participants in the market data industry. In addition, he serves as the primary point of contact for the Data Vendor Constituent Group and the Index Forum Group. Prior to joining FISD Nick was employed with the American Bankers Association from 2002-2007 and with The NASDAQ Stock Market from 1987 – 2001 where he served as Senior Director Issuer Services. Nick holds a BA from The University of Mississippi and an MBA from The George Washington University. |
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Head of Market Data Competence Center, BNP Paribas BNPP Market Data Manager at BNP Paribas |
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Head of master data, registered manager, Boerse Stuttgart Responsible for data acquisition and data quality of nearly 900.000 active listed instruments on the Stuttgart Stock Exchange and approximately 1.3 billion updates daily, Joerg joined the exchange in January 2007. Starting with responsibilities for marketing and sales, he changed to the master data team in April 2009 and developed a high quality data feed for securitized products. The master data feed for investment and leverage products is the leading benchmark feed for retail investment products on the German market. One of the highlights of this feed is a multiple classification system for each individual instrument. |
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Managing Director, Arcontech Limited Andrew has over 20 years experience in the market data industry. He joined Arcontech Limited in 1992 from Thomson Financial becoming Managing Director in 2000. He conceived and brought to market Arcontech's CityVision real time market data platform which is now deployed worldwide in mission critical applications from |
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Head of Fund Admin Strategy , BNP Paribas Securities Services Henri started in the bank in ALM, then in International Credit (Brazil, Nigeria, Zaire ...), He was then Head of NAV calculation for BNP Paribas Paris for 20 years and now, Head of Fund Admin Strategy for BNP Paribas Securities Services. |
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Global Head of Market Data Commercial Management, Director , Barclays Bank Currently the Global Head of Market Data Commercial Management at Barclays Bank and with over 21 years experience in the Financial Market Data industry across The Toronto Stock Exchange, Reuters, Citigroup, HSBC and Barclays Bank. Kiou manages a global team of Market Data Vendor Managers and Index Licensing Managers centralising the commercial and contractual negotiations and derivative product licensing across the bank. Kiou also manages all external vendor and exchange audits. |
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Product and Market Development, Qatar Exchange Nick Ogbourne works within the Product and Development group at Qatar Exchange. The team’s remit is to introduce or facilitate new financial products on the exchange, by bringing together market stakeholders and liaising with regulatory authorities to ensure a correct framework is in place. Nick has managed the market data business at QE and now focuses on index development, an area expected to underpin a number of new financial products. | |
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Research Director Capital Markets, Tower Group B2B professional, senior level international experience in Marketing, Product Management, Relationship Management and Business Development in IT and financial services. Industry domain expert in Data Management and Straight-Through-Processing (STP) for financial services, executive member of ISITC Europe (2003-2005). Regular contributor in publications such as STP magazine, ICFA, Global Custodian, Reference Data Review. Prolific writer and public speaker, product and market expert. Always looking for good ideas to make things simpler and help bridge the techie/business chasm. |
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Group Product Manager, London Stock Exchange Group Ed is Group Product Manager for Information Services at the London Stock Exchange Group with responsibility for current ticker plant services and future strategic developments. He joined the Group in 2007 from Lehman Brothers and has worked both in account management and product management before taking on his current role within the technology division of the Group. Ed holds a BSc Honours in Business Management & IT from the University of York. | |
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Business Manager France, Screen France Hugues Ravailler joined the Screen Group of companies in 2005 to run its French operations as a founding partner of Screen France. In his more than 13 years in the Financial Services industry, he has been involved in over 30 market & reference data related projects in Europe and North America for Investment Banks, Asset Managers, Inter Dealer Brokers, Central Banks, Regulators and Data Vendors. His expertise, as a consultant and subject matter expert, covers most of the tasks involved with Market & Reference Data Management such as Strategy Definition, Business Analysis & User Profiling, Cost Optimization, Compliance, Vendor Selection, Market Data Organization & Administration, and INFOMatch implementation projects. Prior to his role at Screen, Hugues spent 6 years with ING France as Market Data Manager, Financial Controller and e-Brokerage Project Manager. He is a graduate from Paris-Dauphine university. |
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Head, Projects & International MD, Societe Generale Securities Services He began his career in 1987 at JP MORGAN in Paris as Head of back-offices then spent a few years as Head of Operations - including Services for Institutional in Europe, US and Middle-East area - within major financial players (NOMURA INTERNATIONAL, CREDIT LYONNAIS AM, ROBECO GROEP) and, finally, he worked for the asset management company of a large Insurance Group. He had a long experience in various subjects regarding Market and Insurance activities and specifically Trading, Operations, Fund Administration, Accounting and IT developments also in 2004 he joined SGSS to participate to the ALFAS Project, taking in charge the Data Market matters in Europe. Olivier is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside after a master in management at La Sorbonne in PARIS. |
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Marketing & Business Developmetn Manager - Indices, ThomsonReuters Philippe Shah is globally responsible for the marketing of Thomson Reuters Indices and Index Services, and also for business development in EMEA. He has worked in a variety of business development, strategy and marketing roles in London, Mumbai and New York within the Sales and Investment & Advisory divisions of the business. Phil has a BSc in International Business from the University of Warwick and MSc in International Management from the Community of European Management Schools. | |
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Chair, FISD Exec Committee / Head, Global Data Acquisition, SIX Telekurs Ltd. |
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Director, Customer Data, Deutsche Bank Julia has been involved in the Financial Services area for 36 years and the last 27 in reference data. She has held several global roles predominantly heading up customer reference data for 4 major banks and joined Deutsche in October 2011 to set up a unique identification system and drive it, together with core customer data throughout the infrastructure. |
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Head of Global Market Data, Nordea Bank AB Claus Thorball is Head of Global Market Data in Nordea Bank. Nordea has recently strengthened the market data area to meet the need for a consolidated and strategically approach to managing market data within the Bank. Managing quality, quantity and service levels across regions, business areas and user groups are in the process of being centralized in Global Market Data in order to maximize the total value of data and minimize the costs. Nordea is a leading North European Bank with around 10 million customers, approximately 1,400 branch offices and a leading netbanking position with 6.1 million e-customers. Nordea was awarded 'Bank of The Year 2010' in Sweden Denmark and Norway by The FT magazine 'The Banker'. Claus joined Nordea in May 2010 after two years heading the Vendor & Sourcing Management department in Saxo Bank. Prior to joining Saxo Bank Claus had a successful career with Nasdaq OMX heading the Global Data Sales department. |
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Manager, Market Data Admin. & Audit Real Time Data, London Stock Exchange Derek Walsh joined the London Stock Exchange in 1998 as a market data auditor. He is now a manager in the Real Time Data department of the London Stock Exchange Group, leading a team of market data analysts and a team of market data auditors. Responsibilities include managing client reporting for real time data and ensuring compliance with group reporting policies. |